32 THE HORSE, ASS, AND MULE 



In the 1 08 1 horses registered we find the following Thor- 

 oughbred blood : 



Pure-bred Thoroughbreds 2 horses 



Containing 50 per cent Thoroughbred blood .... 50 horses 

 Containing 25 per cent Thoroughbred blood .... 296 horses 

 Containing i T\ per cent Thoroughbred blood .... 343 horses 

 Containing 6\ per cent Thoroughbred blood .... 152 horses 

 Containing 3 per cent Thoroughbred blood . . . . 36 horses 



Uncertain breeding 202 horses 



Total 1 08 1 horses 



The foundation stock of the American saddle horse, as agreed 

 upon by the American Saddle Horse Breeders' Association, after 

 years of careful investigation and as revised in 1902, consists of 

 the following ten stallions : 



Denmark (Thoroughbred), by imp. Hedgeford 

 John Dillard, by Indian Chief (Canadian) 

 Tom /fa/ (imported from Canada) 

 Cabelfs Lexington, by Gist's Black Hawk (Morgan) 

 Coleman's Eureka (Thoroughbred and Morgan) 

 Van Meter's Waxy (Thoroughbred) 

 Stump -The- Dealer (Thoroughbred) 

 Peter's Halcorn, Thoroughbred on sire's side 

 Davy Crockett 

 Pat Cleburne, by Benton's Gray Diomed 



The value of the Thoroughbred in developing the American 

 saddle horse is set forth in the Breeders Gazette in interesting 

 manner by the late Charles L. Railey, long noted as a leader in 

 the improvement of the saddle horse. After referring to the 

 hard gait of the Thoroughbred, he says : 



In a life experience I do not recall one high-class saddle horse that was strictly 

 a Thoroughbred. I have bought many beautiful specimens of the Thorough- 

 bred, and tried faithfully to develop a saddle horse, only to find disastrous 

 failure in each instance. The Kentucky breeder long ago realized that the 

 Thoroughbred horse was the foundation from which to build for fineness of 

 head and neck, obliquity of shoulders, texture of coat, quality of bone and fluted 

 leg; and while retaining these qualities, added to them a higher carriage of 

 head, more action, a more docile temperament, and from this idea was evolved 

 the saddle-bred horse of Kentucky. 



